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Though who would possibly live like this and do all this work, for free?
So why do you?
“LOSS
'Sorry for your loss, they say. And I want to know what they mean, because it's not just my boys I've lost. I've lost my motherhood, my chance to be a grandmother. I've lost the easy conversation of neighbours and the comfort of family in my old age. Every day I wake to some new loss that I hadn't thought of before, and I know that soon it will be my mind.'
Vivienne Blackman, 1915”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
'Sorry for your loss, they say. And I want to know what they mean, because it's not just my boys I've lost. I've lost my motherhood, my chance to be a grandmother. I've lost the easy conversation of neighbours and the comfort of family in my old age. Every day I wake to some new loss that I hadn't thought of before, and I know that soon it will be my mind.'
Vivienne Blackman, 1915”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
“Sarah sat on the bed, her large, freckled hand storking the golden down on our baby's had. 'You can change your mind.' I'd tried to imagine it a hundred different ways. 'It's not just my mind that would need to change,' I said.”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
“To be in love when the outcome is uncertain is an exquisite kind of agony.”
― Tell Me Everything
― Tell Me Everything
“At times he felt he was living his very largest life, as though his soul were billowing before him like a huge and rippling sail.”
― Tell Me Everything
― Tell Me Everything
“The noises of society fending off despair with routine.”
― The Sweetness of Water
― The Sweetness of Water
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